About
THIRD PERSON
Tim Miles
Tim Miles?
He’s a work-at-home-dad-writer-cook-repairman-designer-nerd-husband-consultant-speaker-psychologist-playmate-and-way-more-but-I’m-afraid-my-hyphen-button-might-break.
And that was just yesterday. Plus, he’s kinda tall. Talks with his hands a lot. Makes up words sometimes.
Tim Miles helps small businesses across the U.S. and Canada do more with less. For example, he just completed his first year with a client (a heating and air conditioning company in Illinois) who saw a 26% increase but spent 12% less on advertising.
He’s advised and helped develop marketing plans for clients from California to Maine in the states and from Calgary to Mississauga a little farther north. A partner with the strategic planning and message development firm, Wizard of Ads, Tim has created ads of all shapes, sizes, and colors.
A world-class copywriter, his words have won customers in eight countries, and his thoughts have been published in Radio Ink, Radio And Production, and Direct Magazine, and he serves as a contributing editor for American Small Business.
In a previous life, he won more than 80 awards for his writing and design work before he learned there were better ways to measure success.
He regularly speaks at conferences, colleges and universities about what makes people do the things they do.
Tim and his ISTJ wife, Deidre, have two children and live out in the country in the middle of the middle west.
FIRST & SECOND PERSON
- I like to finish the work quickly.
- I hold the work sacred. My clients stay with me year after year because I can quickly and clearly tell them why I make the strategic choices I make to help them grow.
- I’m fiercely loyal. On a couple occasions, my clients’ competitors have offered me substantial sums of money to leave my client. I firmly told them to go fly.
- I don’t solicit business. I work strictly through repeat business, referrals, and connections made through writing and speaking.
- At 14 months, our son Willie was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. He looks at the world differently, much like his old man. Willie’s taught me to separate the truly important from the merely urgent.
- As a result of Willie’s changing my worldview, I now freely lend a hand to several small not-for-profits who cannot afford it. The way I look it: my time, then, is your money. While no amount of it would get me to stop, I figure you certainly have a right to know whom you’re indirectly supporting. I welcome you to contact me for a list of these organizations before we move forward.
- I’ve spoken to groups as large as 850 and taught workshops to as few as three.
- And not to bury the lede, but my dirty little secret? I accept only those clients who positively reek of passionate courage and possess defining characteristics that make them profoundly good at what they do. They just need help telling their story well.
- When my schedule permits, and when the project sounds fun, I do freelance, one-off writing projects. They’ve included scripts, websites, white papers, and ghostwriting a non-fiction business book.
- I’m paid on a business’ revenue growth and can be fired at any time. Wouldn’t you want to partner with visionaries unafraid to get things done, too?
Who Are These Wizards?
Founded by Roy & Pennie Williams in 1987, Wizard Partners (aka Wizard of Ads) is a marketing research, teaching, and consulting organization. Our purpose is to help small business owners achieve business growth not just by percentages, but by multiples!
